Carlisle CM FUTCARD Reserves & Ex-Players

Diogo Meireles - 15

Born: April 9th, 1999 (Age 22)
Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height: 1.70m
Weight: 65kg
Foot: Right
WF: *****
Skill: **
Bio: Meireles was born to Portuguese parents living in Brazil. He is cousins with Footballer Raul Meireles. He grew up playing beach football in Ipanema. However, after 2 unsuccessful trials with both Fluminese and America FC at age 14 (Which he later explained was due to his very "Un-Brazillian" style of football), Meireles was on the verge of giving up football to work for his father's taxi company. He was, however, spotted by a Carlisle talent scout on holiday in Brazil.
On April 30th 2014 Meireles signed with the Carlisle you academy, he spent 2 years in the academy playing every position between CB and CAM. On May 1st 2016 Meireles signed a professional contract with Carlisle, he was immediately praised has having a sixth sense for the game and could seemingly predict and understand the positions and movements of all 22 players on the pitch.
This ability led him to make 10 appearances in his first season, as a deep lying CDM. However in his second season 17/18 to contribute more as a direct supplier of goals Meireles fell short of his goal. It has been said that this is because while he is able dictate the play at the exact speed he desires, Meireles when moving with the ball, and his unreliable in front of the goal.
Controversially, Meireles was not named in the Brazil squad for the 2018 world cup, manager Ronaldo, claims this was because the team needed room for another attacking midfielder.
In his third season at the club however Meireles was moved back to CDM when teammate Rode was sold to Manchester United, from this position Meireles is credited as being "the glue that holds Carlisle together" by ex-Manchester United player Paul Scholes, whom is often compared with Meireles
Meireles is an openly gay footballer, and often the target of unkind chants from opposing fans. Meireles has however stated that it does not affect his game, and has in-fact motivated him.

Philipp Schuster - 3

Born: September 20th, 1996 (Age 24)
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Height: 1.86m
Weight: 79kg
Foot: Left
WF: ****
Skill: **
Bio: Philipp Schuster was born to Bavarian parents, and grew up playing rugby for his local team. However at age 13 he was signed by 1860 Munich as a youth player.
He was promoted to the senior team at the age of 18 where he went on to become a regular starer at 1860, helping them to promotion in his second season.
Schuster worked his way up to captain over the coming seasons and became 1860's star player, keeping 18 clean sheets in his 5th season at the club
In his 6th and final season at the club Schuster captained his team to Dfb pokal cup win over local rivals Bayern Munchen, however the win was marred by the death of his brother in a drunk driving incident the night before.
Schuster and his family claim that 1860 Munich manager Gert Perdy, had knowledge of the incident before the game, but witheld the information from Schuster, for fear that it would affect his game. Mr. Perdy denies these claims, however Schuster handed in a transfer request in July of 2021, and Schuster was sold to Carlisle for a fee of £18mil.
Schuster is Carlisle's newest signing and has been brought in as competion for current CBs Tah and Rea.

Martijn H'Maidat - 29

Born: December 23rd, 1998 (Age 22)
Birthplace: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height: 1.80m
Weight: 76kg
Foot: Right
WF: **
Skill: ****
Bio: H'Maidat is the son of two Dutch artists, and as a child was encouraged to follow in the footsteps of his parents. However when his family moved to London to pursue their careers as artists H'Maidat took a keen interesting football.
H'Maidat was spotted by a QPR talent scout playing in a 5 a side football tournament set up by local school's. Incidentally teammate Kaabouni, also played in the tournament.
H'Maidat signed a contract, with Queens Park Rangers youth academy at age 14, and in July 2016 signed a professional contract with the club, in his first season H'Maidat had a loan spell with Dutch 2nd division club SBV Excelsior. H'Maidat was abel to score 29 goals in his season with the club, leading them to promotion.
On his return to QPR he took his place up front when striker Bobby Zamora retired. In the 17/18 season H'Maidat was 3rd top scorer in the premier league with 18 goals and won the capital one cup with QPR, although he did not play in the final due to suspension.
On August 2nd 2018 Carlisle signed H'Maidat for £25mil as competition and backup for France international strikers Maupay and Martial. However after scoring a hattrick in his debut and the proceeding to 8 goals in 7 appearances for the club, between August and January, H'Maidat displaced Maupay as 2nd striker, who was then sold to Sporting Lisbon for €10mil. From January H'Maidat was often played over Martial, who had been dipping out of form. H'Maidat finished his first season at Carlisle with 18 goals in 22 appearances for the club.
In the 19/20 season however Martial returned to form and H'Maidat was forced back to 2nd striker, the similarities between the two players' styles have meant that Carlisle's style is unchanged when H'Maidat plays, making him the obvious choice when Martial does not play.
In the 2020 European championship H'Maidat was the top goalscorer in the tournament, in the tournament taking the Dutch to the final where they lost to France. A game in which teammate's Kaabouni and Martial both scored their penalties in the shootout.
H'Maidat returned to Carlisle with the European championship golden boot, however he was still not able to displace Martial, who was in the final three for the Ballon d'Or that year, at the tip of the Carlisle phalanx.
H'Maidat is described as very down-to-earth and realistic by friends and family. Comments to the press from H'Maidat have reinforced this image, as H'Maidat has said "I perfectly understand my role at the club as competition for Anthony (Anthony Martial), he is a better player than me."

Luca Paloschi - 9

Born: January 13th, 1997 (Age 24)
Birthplace: Brindisi, Italy
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 80kg
Foot: Left
WF: *****
Skill: ***
Bio: Luca Paloschi grew up on his parents olive farm in Rural Italy, he helped his father pick the olives during the Autumn, this was how he claims to have discovered his love of football, when his father would through olives to him and he would kick them into a basket.
Paloschi attended a Carlisle summer camp in Brindisi at age 13 in 2010, he was spotted by the camp scouts and offered a contract to join the academy when he reached the age of 15, he accepted the contract and and on January 13th, 2012 Paloschi joined Carlisle's academy.
Paloschi was awarded a professional contract on May 1st 2014 along with teammates: Scuffet, Serrão, Miglietta and Zaza.
Paloschi made 8 appearances in his first season, at CM. However his poor performance meant he was unable to secure a regular place.
In the 15/16 season Paloschi began playing behind the striker, where he was able to provide 15 assists and 6 goals in 36 appearances.
Over next couple of season Paloschi made 79 appearances for the club scoring 19 goals and getting 29 assists.
Paloschi played in front of teammates Zaza and Rea in the 2018 world cup. Along with teammate Scuffet and ex-teammate Miglietta in the midfield. However despite Italy making it to the final, they lost, and Paloschi was only able to provide one assist throughout the tournament.
In the 18/19 season Paloschi managed to retain his place in the team despite fierce competition from up and coming centre forward from Offrata.
However over the last two season's Paloschi has lost his starting place in the team to the younger and more physically dominant Offrata.
Paloschi still helps his father pick the olives during the offseason at his farm in Brindisi.

Michal Matuschyk - 21

Born: July 29th, 1999 (Age 22)
Birthplace: Jersey, Channel Islands
Height: 1.83m
Weight: 74kg
Foot: Left
WF: ***
Skill: ***
Bio: Michal Matuschyk, was born to Polish parents on the island of Jersey, as a baby Matuschyk suffered from Meningitis as a baby, however he was able to make a full recovery and began school to play football for his school at age 6. Michal was spotted by a talent scout for Carlisle, playing football for his school in a local tournament.
He signed with the academy in December of 2014. Matuschyk signed a proffesional contract with the club in May of 2016. In the 16/17 season he was able to provide competition for Paloschi, but unable to gain a place i the team.
Matuschyk returned from a successful loan spell at Portsmouth in June of 2018. He was still unable to break into the first to in the coming two season however only showing glimpses of brilliance.
In the 20/21 season played in the Champions league final, coming in for injured Offrata, he managed to get a goal and assisted the winner (Scored by Scuffet).

Juan Morientes - 23

Born: March 18th, 2001 (Age 20)
Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
Height: 1.75m
Weight: 68kg
Foot: Left
WF: *
Skill: ***
Bio: Morientes was born in Madrid to an English mother and Spanish father. At age 10 he moved to Lancashire with his family in search of work as the Spanish economy crashed.
He was given a contract after a successful trial with Carlisle. In his first season Morientes played at LB.
In the 18/19 season Morientes proved his proficiency as an attacker netting 8 times in 20 appearances. He was moved forward to an attacking role, playing at LW and CAM.
However, over the last two season Morientes has been unable to discover his best position playing various attacking and defending roles, one week seemingly sure to be playing at LW, then putting in some superior performances at CM.
Morientes' versatility has allowed him to notch quite a few appearances for Carlisle, playing 90 games in his 4 season at the club, playing in every position except for GK.
Morientes has 2 children, Jiminez and Carla, with his wife Christine Morientes.

Wilfried Gonçalves - 6

Born: June 6th, 2003 (Age 18)
Birthplace: Cognac, France
Height: 1.89m
Weight: 76kg
Foot: Right
WF: *****
Skill: *
Bio: Wilfried grew up in the town of Roulliac just outside Cognac, as a child Gonçalves wanted to be a Footballer, however his parents wanted him to be a doctor. This would cause arguments between him and his parents when Gonçalves would fail at school because he was playing football instead of studying. When offered a youth footballing contract with Marseille at age 14, his parents turned down the contract, as acting guardians of Gonçalves. When Gonçalves found out he left home to live with his grandparents in Birmingham, where he was accepted a contract with Carlisle.
He made his debut for Carlisle against Chelsea on the November 8th 2019, in place of an injured Tah. Gonçalves is the 2nd choice LCB for Carlisle and has made 29 apps over the last 2 seasons.
He has only had contact once with his parents since leaving home.

Denis Miglietta - 7

Born: July 4th, 1998 (Age 23)
Birthplace: Turin, Italy
Height: 1.80m
Weight: 74kg
Foot: Right
WF: **
Skill: ***
Bio: Denis Miglietta is the son of footballer Crocefisso Miglietta. From an early age Denis was better than his classmates at football. At age 9 he joined the academy of local club Ternana Calcio, however he was released at age 14 by the club, stating that he was too slow to play in his preferred position on the wing.
At age 16 he was picked up Carlisle scout, and signed a professional contract with the club on May 1st, 2014.
Miglietta was promoted at the same time as Brazil star Fabião Serrão, both players played at right-wing.
In his first season Miglietta was unable gain a place in the team over Serrão, however he was able to get 5 assists in 1 appearance (a 6-0 dismantling of Leicester city)
In his next two seasons he showed signs of improvement and was better than a lot of other players in the team, however more and more world class performances from Serrão, meant that despite Miglietta's best efforts he couldn't break into the first XI. Miglietta became more and more unsettled in the team believing that he was the better option over Serrão, which is still hotly debated, by fans today.
However Miglietta was sold to Sevilla for a fee of £29mil on January 20th 2018. He was injured in his second match at the club and so missed the second half of the season at his new club.
He returned from injury in time to play for Italy in the 2018 world cup finals, where he was reunited with teammates, Scuffet, Paloschi, and Zaza.
Miglietta won the BBVA player of the in the 18/19 season scoring 8 times and assisting 23 as he and Sevilla finished 2nd in the league for the first time in over 60 years.
In his last 2 seasons at the club he has netted 13 times for them and notched up 44 assists, as well as having one of the best ball retention records in the league.
Miglietta recently patched up relations with former teammate Serrão.

Lucas Hernández - 5

Born: February 14th, 1996 (Age 25)
Birthplace: Monaco, Monaco
Height: 1.80m
Weight: 75kg
Foot: Left
WF: ***
Skill: **
Bio: Lucas Hernández was born to Spanish-French parents holidaying in Monaco, he is the son of natural gas tycoon Juliana Hernández. When his family moved back to Madrid he was signed on to the youth academy of Club Athletico de Madrid, in August of 2007. In 2014 he signed professionally with the club, and also chose to represent France at a national level.
In his first season he was loaned to lower league club Elche, which went into administration and so Hernández was both unable to return to Athletico until his loan spell expired or play for Elche.
On his return Hernández made 8 appearances in the 15/16 season.
He was signed by Carlisle for a fee of €8mil in July 2016, where he was immediately made a starter and had a highly successful first season making 39 appearances for the club. However in his second season he was dropped on occasion in order to give other CBs like Tah and Rea a chance. This caused a rapid relationship break down between Hernández and the manager and he was sold to Udinese in January 2018 for a fee of £20mil.
Hernádez has enjoyed 3 seasons at Udinese, rarely missing a match.
Hernández can speak 4 languages: French, Spanish, English, and Italian.

Fabian Weilandt - 11

Born: June 4th, 1998 (Age 22)
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Height: 1.68m
Weight: 62kg
Foot: Left
WF: ***
Skill: *****
Bio: Fabian Weilandt was born to German parents, and grew up in a town just outside of Munich. He was spotted by a Carlisle talent scout age 13 and signed for the academy the following year. He was a stand out player for the u16 team and far out-shined, the other members of the academy that year, which included Ballon D'Or winner Serrão as well as Luca Scuffet, Alberto Zaza, and Denis Miglietta.
However due to his young age he was not signed professionally at the same time as his teammates on May 1st of 2014. He in fact signed for the club on June 5th of 2014 a day after his 16th birthday, he is still considered part of Carlisle's Golden Generation.
In his first season at the club he was easily the most talented of the other group of young players to come through the academy, he made 40 starts for Carlisle that season scoring 14.
In his second season at the club his flashy skills, burning pace and a deadly shot lead him to be the top scorer (with 33 goals) in Carlisle's first season in the premier league. However on August 30th of 2016 Weilandt tore his ASL after a particularly bad tackle from Chelsea's Varane, Weilandt missed the entire 16/17 season having 8 surgery's on his knee. Due to his young age (18) it was thought that Weilandt would be able to recover from the injury, however on his return to football in June of 2017 he was clearly struggling. Weilandt was not able to run past defenders like he used to, and his shot had become unreliable, in the coming season he lost his place to Italy international Luca Scuffet, who has played the season that Weilandt had been out.
His drop in ability his partially attributed to his year out of football which had severely hampered his growth, but the injury has caused him severe pain when running too fast, and so Weilandt has had to rely on his dribbling ability in recent times.
In January 2018 Weilandt was sold to Arsenal for a fee of £26mil. He has enjoyed 2 1/2 decent seasons at Arsenal, and remained a starter for them unhampered by injury. He managed to score against his old club in the charity shield in 2021, however Arsenal lost the game on penalties.
As Weilandt is only 22 it is hopped that he will still be able to recover from his injury and return to his former self.
A pre-injury card for Weilandt has been commissioned: http://i.imgur.com/XU4s5LO.png

Łukasz Szeliga - 35

Born: October 3rd, 1999 (Age 21)
Birthplace: Nowy Sacz, Poland
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 79kg
Foot: Left
WF: ***
Skill: ***
Bio: Szeliga was born to Polish parents. He signed for Lech Poznan's youth academy. However he was spotted by a Carlisle scout, looking at fellow countryman Krystian Rudol. Łukasz Szeliga, was brought to Carlisle at the same time as Rudol. He was given a contract on May 1st 2018 at the age of 18. Szeliga far outperformed other players in his age category, and he was often given the nod ahead of world class players like Scuffet in less important matches.
However after just one season at Carlisle a bid for £45mil from Real Madrid was accepted in July of 2019.
It may be too early to call Szeliga a flop at age 21, however, in his 2 seasons at Madrid he has only made 4 appearances, and has shown little improvement.
Szeliga remains friends with teammates: Matuschyk and Rudol, who all play for Poland Internationally.

Jomar Aduamah - 2

Born: February 20th, 2001 (Age 21)
Birthplace: Accra, Ghana
Height: 1.88m
Weight: 75kg
Foot: Left
WF: ****
Skill: ****
Bio: Born to Ghanian parents, he was spotted by a Carlisle talent scout in Accra and was signed for the academy on December 29th 2015.
He signed a professional contract on May 1st 2017. However, Aduamah quickly became unsettled at the club and after several arguments with then academy player Morientes, Aduamah was taken away from the training ground in a police van for alleged assault.
He was sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers in July of 2017.
He has enjoyed decent times with Wolves as they have been able to avoid relegation over the last few seasons.
Rumours on the internet claim that Morientes has a restraining order against him, these rumours where fuelled when Aduamah was dropped for the Match between Carlisle and Wolves in August of 2019. However Aduamah's agent has dismissed these claims.